"Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it."

-- Edgar Friedenberg

#People Quotes #Matter Quotes #Violence Quotes

“A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.”
“Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.”
“I just sit here and tell the story as though I can't help it. There's always something in the day that reminds me, that sets me off all hot and guilty and scared and rambling and wistful, like I am now.”

Source : Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.1, Pan Macmillan
“I've got to make a new life for myself, I'm out to learn how to enjoy my leisure now that I'm retired. I've been doing things people expected of me always. I want to feel free. I want to sit under a linden tree with nothing more important to worry about than the temperature of the beer, if there is anything more important.”
“If I was a girl I'd still swing both ways anyway.”
“Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.”
“Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.”
“Love risks everything and asks for nothing.”

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